Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-15
State 11epS.

mas tailed with liabilities OF 81 SUI.
Montpelier will be 100 years old May
4, and celebration is being talked up.
Col. Albert Clarke, editor of the Rut-
land Herald, will give the Memorial-day
address at Brandon.
The President has appointed Ira Cod
dard postmaster at Ludlow, vice A. II.
Lockwood, resigned.
Rutland business men are trying to es-
tablish a market day, an institution which
the town never has had,
Nathaniel Fairbanks, So, Springfield
farmer, cut his throat there Wednesday
night. No cause for the act is known.
The May term docket of the Windsor
county court contains 1870 law cases. of
which 80 are divorce and 13 State cases.
A. c. Czibulka, student in the medi-
cal department of the university of Ver-
mont, has fallen heir to $50, 900 by the
death of an uncle in Austria.
1t is stated that the workingmen of
Rutland have about completed arrange
ments to start Il new daily paper in that
place. to be called The Leader 1t will be
started in April.
a young man aged %, name not ascer-
tanned, committed suicide at Barton Tues
day noon, throwing himself under a pas
sing freight train, and was killed instant
ly. He left letter showing premedta-
| ton.
The American Canoe association will
have its annual meet at Bow and Arrow
point, South Hero, August ~ to %.
There are about 600 members of the
association. and there are usually from
200 to 300 present at these meets.
Mrs. Mary \. Coleman of Jamaica has
been held in 5000 bail on the charge of
using postage stamps the second time,
for which the penalty under the federal
statutes is 500 to $500 fine or six months
to a years imprisonment, or both.
There were S64 east and west-bound
freight cars in the Central Vermont rail
road yard at st. Adams, Saturday. On
the same day over 400 loaded cars were
on side tracks at Montreal destined for
New England points via st. Adams.
EX-Gov. Smith of st. Albans has given
an order for steam sharpie yacht. 40
feet long, and expected to run Is miles
an hour. The yacht will be built at ID.
j. Lawlor's yard at Burlington. will cost
$1,000 and will be the first steam sharpie
ever built.
Charles ID. Pike, formerly of st. Johns
bury and supposed to be connected with
a gang of swindlers in Chicago. was
brought to st. .Johnsbury. Monday, on Il
requisition from the governor, charged
with securing $1,000 under false pretences
from Mrs. l.. ID. Adams of Derby, VT,
his aunt. At the preliminary hearing
he was held in $500 to appear at the
next September term.
The mystery connected with the disap-
pearance of $4,000 in money and bonds
from a. G.. Whttemore's office in Bur
lington was solved Saturday by the con-
fession of Mrs. Eunice Walsh, who was
arrested on the charge of committing the
theft. The money, amounting to 500,
was found on her person, and, following
her directions, the tin box containing the
bonds was found concealed under door
step. Mrs. Walsh is subject to the NOR
phine habit. She was deprived of the
drug and was thus led to confess. At the
hearing she was bound up for trial at the
county court.
During high mass at the church of St
Augustine at Montpelier, Sunday, thief
entered the residence of Rev. William j
O'Sulivan through dining room win
dow, and with the aid of an axe broke
open the drawer in the priests writing
desk which contained the Easter Offering
of the congregation at the early service
and other money belonging TO the church
About 500 was removed and the culprit
escaped. shortly before this occurred
and while the clerks were at breakfast
an attempt was made TO force open the
stamp window in the Montpelier pos
office. with the evident purpose of gain
ing access to the cash drawer just inside
The American institute of instruction
will hold its 18th annual meeting at Bur
lington, July IS, 1887. These speaker.
have been secured: Thomas NJ. Ballet
superintendent of schools at Reading, Pa.
"'rhe Feelings and their Culture;" JOIN
o. Norris, head master of the CharlestowI
(Mass.) high school, "EXtra-professiona
Duties and Privileges of the Teacher :
Thomas Emerson, superintendent o
schools at Newton, Mass, Free Text
Books" Walter q. Scott, principal o
Phillips Exeter academy, 1.-The Element
of Liberal Education;" James c
Greenough, principal of State norma
school at Westfield, Mass, "Indiyidual